Last year, I happened to stay in Mysore for some months. During my stay there, on a Sunday I had gone to Bangalore with my friends. There were four of us, three girls and a guy (poor fellow). We reached B’lore at around 10 o’clock in the morning. We had taken the Volvo bus from Mysore. These KSRTC Volvo buses are so comfortable. You don’t feel the strain of traveling by bus. Wish there were Volvo buses in TN too.

The main purpose of our going to B’lore was that two of my friends (both the girls) wanted to do shopping in B’lore. I belong to the rare category of people who won’t do shopping unless they really want to. So I went along with them just to have some fun with friends and also to see all the shopping areas in B’lore. And I did see almost all of them!
Within a limited time (10 hours in B’lore), we covered Forum, Jayanagar, M.G.Road/Brigade Road, Central Shopping Mall and Commercial Street. After reaching B’lore, we first had our breakfast in some restaurant where we were joined by two more girls (my friend’s friends). Then we went to Forum where one more guy joined us (again a friend’s friend). Then started the real shopping experience! The two guys just moved away and waited and waited till both my friends kept on rejecting dress after dress before deciding to buy just two kurtas. Finally after doing window shopping in almost all the shops in Forum, we left for Jayanagar since someone told that there were some good shops there. But, again nothing satisfied any of us. Again back to Forum for lunch! The place was so crowded that we decided to go somewhere else. But all of a sudden my shopping-crazy friends found some shop which we hadn’t visited when we had come earlier in the day. So after some half an hour when they bought some matching accessories, we finally had our lunch at some North Indian Restaurant.
After that we went to M.G.Road. Again not even a single shop suited my friends’ tastes. So we went to Central by walk next. Finally they did like some dresses in Central. At Central, the guy who met us at B’lore left vexed up with the whole experience of shopping with girls swearing that he would never go for shopping with a girl again!
We then went to Commercial Street where again one of my friend bought just a Salwar-Kameez. By this time it was almost 8 o’clock. So we took a Volvo bus and came back to Mysore.
I have never visited so many shops in a single day as I did on that day. At the end of it, this is what my shopping-crazy friends had to say: “There is no place like Madras for shopping!” Well, this after doing shopping for the whole day!
P.S.: Friends, in case you are reading this, I really enjoyed the shopping experience with you people!